Job Description

Location(s): Canada

City/Cities: Toronto

Travel Required:

Relocation Provided: No

Job Posting End Date: March 3, 2023

Shift:

Summary:

Our products are available to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. The brands are brought to our consumers through a network of independent, Company-owned or controlled bottling plants, as well as distribution operations who manufacture, package, merchandise, and distribute the finished branded beverages to our customers and vending partners. The Franchise Manager serves as the primary point of contact representing the total region portfolio and will steward the development of the brands with primary accountability of growing revenue, volume, share and transactions through. We are looking for candidates with bottling or general management experience that can build relationships and execute our strategies across our network.

What You\xe2\x80\x99ll Do for Us

Responsible for weekly/monthly performance management, which includes reporting on revenue, volume, share, transaction metrics.

Monitors performance versus execution objectives, re-plans as necessary and provides feedback to key stakeholders. Also, manages discretionary budgets based on regional need.

Executes the commercial strategy and plans with franchise (bottling partners) owners for local market execution.

Responsible for collaborating on the contingency plan to deliver annual business plan performance in channels to include revenue, volume, share, net outlets, SOVI (share of visual inventory), and pricing.

Standardizes common approach to capability building based on bottler segmentation.

Assesses local Bottler commercial capabilities against established commercial strategies and objectives using the core measures within the Global Commercial Leadership Diagnostic Analysis Model; identifying gaps and develops action plans to improve capabilities.

Coordinate\'s training/development enables more effective processes, scorecards and business routines to achieve the annual business plan.

Work with franchise commercial manager to steward the planning process that is in place bi-monthly, ensuring all customer plans are included.

Be the SME for Large Store, Small Store and FSOP (Foodservice & On-Premise ) Channel Plans and work with respective Directors and their sales teams at the bottlers to execute the plan. Participate in all channel planning routines from Atlanta.

Provides Bottler performance feedback to Franchise Leadership \xe2\x80\x9cserving as voice of the market.\xe2\x80\x9d

Monitor\'s market conditions and reports competitive activity to management, Bottler and local associates in order to understand program effectiveness and any implementation barriers.

Work with Commercial Manager to support the development of commercial stewardship bi-monthly planning stewardship.

Ensure all National Retail, National Foodservice and Regional customer plans are communicated within planning process to ensure end to end execution.

Responsible for negotiation and resolving bottling contracts and National Supply Chain agreements as well as governance agreements and manages governance routines.

Qualifications & Requirements

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Business, Marketing, Management with a Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree is preferred.

5 or more years in Consumer Packaged Goods organization responsible for direct sales, key account or franchise management with P&L responsibility.

Must have experience as a Business Partner with direct Bottler or manufacturing experience in the Food and Beverage industry and how to develop capacity plans to meet customer demand.

Must have experience with annual business planning, forecasting, customer and distributor management and demonstration a track record for delivering positive revenue results.

Demonstrate passion for selling, negotiating, relationship building in an entrepreneurial environment.

Understanding of channel marketing, syndicated marketing research and competitive analysis and how to utilize this knowledge to drive sales.

Must possess excellent relationship building skills, as well as strategic leadership abilities

Distribution center knowledge is ideal

The ability to influence outcomes and be persuasive are ideal

What We Can Do For You

• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.

• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.

Coca-Cola Limited is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We have a number of programs and policies in place to support this goal. If you require a disability-related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please contact our HR Shared Service team by calling 1-877-677-6774. Coca-Cola Limited will consult with all applicants with a disability who request accommodation during the recruitment process to ensure that the accommodation provided takes into account the applicants individual accessibility needs.

Skills: Annual Business Planning, Business Plan Implementation, Capacity Planning, Channel Strategies, Collaborating, Contract Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Distribution Operations Management, Financial Performance Management, Influence, Negotiation, organization, Strategic Leadership

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what\xe2\x80\x99s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors \xe2\x80\x93 curious, empowered, inclusive and agile \xe2\x80\x93 and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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